Anagrams of: AEEEL

• the side of something that is sheltered from the wind

• United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)

• United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970)

• United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1940-1973)

• United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926)

• leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794)

• soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818)

• American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870)

• towards the side away from the wind

• a unit of length of thread or yarn

• a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock

• a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume

• the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled

• voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

• the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization

• a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

• a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth

• a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

• a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite

• a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level

• angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

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